The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-07-23

and no more, in New York.
Thin plates OF metal in the backs Of
books are new London notion.
The fashionable ladies of Cleveland.
o., have taken to horseback riding.
The late Count Beust was almost n
rival of Liszt in the favor of women.
The use of bicycles and tricyclcs il to
be regulated 10y law in Philadelphia.
A Minneapolis man is Building 500
900 log house right in the heart OF the
town.
San Francisco claims population of
100000, which includes 25,OOO Mongo-
liaus.
The pansy is Mrs. Cleveland's favor
ite flower, and she has her dinner-table
decorated with them.
Nathan Hobbs. of Pecniicld, Ga, who
is SO years old, works every day and
reads without spectacles.
There are two counties in Speaker
Carlisle's district that never had a rail-
road or 4 telegraph station.
An Ohio damsel is said TO have re-
ceived nlnety-nine offers of marriage
during the past two years.
The dresses of n western actress arc
described in local paper as poems,
and very short poems, at that
Thirty tons of coal are required To
heat the greenhouses of one of the best
florists in Boston during the winter.
A deposit Of .'black mud" recently
discovered in Garland county, Arkan-
sas, is said to yield 80 in silver to the
ton.
Iroquois, the only American horse
that ever won the English Derby, is be-
ing winterei on a farm near Nashville,
Tenn.
The Catholic churches of Pittsburgh,
Pa, have purchased one hundred acres
on Squirrel hill To- be used for n celne-
terry. The ground cost $4,000.
A newly repaired house in Charleston
has been painted lilac. and the neigh
bors are as much Interested in the dec
Grafton as new development of earth
quake results.
Some northern manufacturers of
stoves are moving soulhward in conse-
quence Of western competition and on
account of the cheapness of iron in Ala
bama and Tennessee.
A single sheet of paper y inches
wide and II miles long was made with
out break in paper-mill 1T Water
town. n. Y. few days ago. The sheet
weighed /, ,207 pounds.
a deposit of pure aspha!tum. from
fifteen To twenty feet thick. has been
discovered near Thistle Station in Utah.
1t is worth $50 a ton, and the expense
of mining is only Al cents.
The New York Commercial hdccr-
hser says: The money LETT ex-Judge
Hilton by Hrs. Stewart in trust will
amount To- more than SlO,OO0,U00, and
he can spend it as be sees fit.
Mark Twain is getting old very fast.
but he does not like TO be told of it.
His hair is nearly white. but Mark per-
ssts that this was caused by sitting in
damp churches out in California.
A patent for gate was granted to
Tcnnesseean the other day. and a Mem
phis newspaper heads a paragraph con-
IalUlUg lIlls lillOi iil'
Genius of Tennessee as Illustrated by
Her Inventors.
The nurse of the baby Alfonso KILL
of Spain is Il famous girl now. When
the royal youngster received his three
decorations from the King of Portugal
she exclaimed: Now | trust his little
Majesty will keep his nose clean"
Roscoe Conkling, describing wit
ness on the other side of the case:
Gentlemen. think can see that wit
ness now-his mouth stretching across
the wide desolation of his face, fouu-
tain OF falsehood. and sepulcher OF
rum"
In 1870 the village of Durham, N. c.,
contained 250 inhabitants. Now it has
$500 and two or three thousand just
outside the boundaries. The valuation
has risen from $4,000 to $500, 900.
Tobacco. cotton and woolen factories
account for this.
Claus Spreckels. the sugar king. has
just returned in high dudgeon from the
Sandwich Islands. He SAYS kalakaua
is fond of drinking-saloons. and is hcav-
lily in debt to England. It's likely that
while Kalakaua takes the beer England
will seize the Sandwich.
The relationship of the members of n
family in Clearield County. Pennsyl-
vania, is SO thoroughly tangled that
some of the children don't know their
uncics from their grandiathcrs. THIS
is due 10 the fact that certain man
and his two sons are married to three
sisters.
DR.. Wiederman. so long the amanu-
ensis and pupil of Ranke, is in an in
sane asylum near Berlin. He suffered
SO much from overwork on the last vol
ume of Ranke's history and from the
nervous excitement attending the last
illness and death of his master, that his
mental powers became unsettled.
A great many people conversant with
Philadelphia affairs consider William
Weightman the richest man in the city.
His fortune is estimated at 10000. 900,
made out OF the profits on quinine be-
fore it was put OH the free list. He is Il
SELF made man; is one Of the
heads Of the great chemical works Ut
Powers 81 Weigbtman; is a widower,
and enteriains very seldom.
The New York cluo men who con-
template organizing the Kissing club
have decided to adopt as badge a
miniature chestnut. with little bell in
the interior. controlled by a spring on
the conical end. The chestnut will be
a close imitation of the real article. II
will be made of gold or silver and will
be worn as a watcl,-cliarin. like the fam
Gus peanut OF the wcll-known club bear
ing that name.